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title: "Richards Louis - Founder, Head of Product in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Richards Louis, CEO @Doifoo | 2x Founder, AI/Product & TEDx based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and claude. Explore public work links including github and doifoo.com."
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# Richards Louis on Tal

## Headline

CEO @Doifoo \| 2x Founder, AI/Product & TEDx

## About

As a founder of Doifoo, I lead the product, engineering, and design of the AI travel app and scaled it to reach various markets and features\. I have successfully launched the app in the midst of the world's worst travel and tourism crisis in pandemic, and have overcome the funding challenges by working with a lean and agile team\. From Product Leader standpoint, I have also enhanced the mobile app experience for over 10\.6 billion monthly active users by partnering with AirAsia, Open, Standard Chartered and other stakeholders\. I have a diverse skill set and a strong background in computer science, engineering, international business, and entrepreneurship, as well as multiple certifications, publications, and honors in these fields\. I share my expertise in AI, Product & Business as a consultant\. Techie👨🏻‍💻, love ✈️ the 🌏💖 🇮🇳🇨🇭🇮🇹🇫🇷🇸🇬🇲🇾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇹🇷🇦🇪🇦🇺🇳🇿🇺🇸🇨🇦

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

github copilot

## Work experience

Founder, Head of Product at Doifoo, Aug 2023 \- Present · 3 y 2 mo, Bengaluru, I founded Doifoo, a Unified Travel ID powered by M\.A\.G\.I\.C AI that helps users manage their travel preferences and bookings across multiple brands and platforms\. As a founder & CEO, my role is focused towards Product, Engineering & design of the AI travel app and scaling it to reach various markets and added up features\. With Doifoo, users can link their travel profiles to all major travel brands, manage rewards, and personalize their travel experiences with AI\-powered recommendations and suggestions\. We re\-launched from scratch in 2025\. ⦁ Doifoo was a part of Razorpay Rize community, India & MDEC’s Digital Tourism Innovation Lab Accelerator in association with 1337 ventures, Malaysia in 2024\. ⦁ Following that, Doifoo launched its beta in Nov 2024 and followed by full product launch alongside complete waitlist onboarding in 2025\!

Senior Product Manager at AirAsia, Sep 2022 \- May 2023 · 9 mos, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, As a Senior Product Manager, my role is to enhance the mobile app experience for these large footprint of travellers, by working closely with the stakeholders & engineering it to perfection, with the help of AirAsia’s fabulous team\. The Airasia Move is the only app you'll need for all your lifestyle and travel needs\. As an online travel agency, the app enables you to book flights with over 700\+ airlines to 3K\+ locations\. Plus, it offers a choice of over 600,000\+ hotels across the globe\. When travel recovered in Southeast Asia, the AirAsia superapp saw the ranks of its monthly active users reach more than 10\.6 million post pandemic\.

Program Manager at Open Financial Technologies, Dec 2021 \- Jun 2022 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, As a Program Manager, I handled the fintech alliance for this product in Zwitch segment ensuring it from tech & management angle\. Open is Asia’s first neobank to cater SME & Startups\. It develops and offers an online platform for banking and intercompany settlement\. It also offers digital banking service for startups and small and medium enterprises that offer digital bank accounts that includes a current account packed with tools for bookkeeping, invoices, moving money, and accessing credit\.

Director of Engineering at Doifoo, Oct 2019 \- Sep 2021 · 2 yrs, Singapore / Bengaluru, As Director of Engineering at Doifoo, I was responsible for translating a bold vision into a working travel tech platform during one of the most volatile periods for the industry\. I led end\-to\-end product delivery from concept to launch while scaling our engineering practices and aligning cross\-functional teams across geographies\. With a strong focus on execution, I navigated the startup through funding challenges, regulatory shifts, and pandemic disruptions, laying the technical and strategic foundation that shaped Doifoo’s early traction and global recognition\. Doifoo got its presence in TechCrunch Disrupt \(🇺🇸 San Francisco\), Against all Odds by Freshworks \(🇬🇧 London\), The Product Summit \(🇮🇳 Bengaluru\), Wolves Summit \(🇵🇱 Warsaw\), GSV Bootcamp \(🇺🇸 San Francisco\), Techsparks \(🇮🇳 Bengaluru\), TechinAsia Startup Factory \(🇸🇬 Singapore\), NASSCOM NASTech \(🇮🇳 Bengaluru\), WTM Virtual \(🇬🇧 London\) & WebSummit \(🇵🇹 Lisbon\) Headquartered in Singapore, We got backed by NASSCOM 10K Startups Incubator & NUMA Accelerator \(LINK\)\. Also, Awarded ‘Promising Start\-up’ in Indian Achiever’s Awards\. Pre\-pandemic recap: The app was launched in midst of the World’s worst Travel & Tourism crisis, on Feb, 2020 for determined to change the future of travel with HQ in Singapore\. Due to the funding winter for travel in covid times, I got to dissolve the part\-time team and work on multiple roles including product, engineering, design, branding & operations\. ⦁ In Dec 2017, A team of 12 employees worked for Doifoo on the subscription model alongside me which made a soft launch in Nasscom Product enclave\. ⦁ The code name ‘Dueclarity’ was branded as Doifoo which later ventured into travel\. Meanwhile, Dueclarity was dropped due to regulatory changes\.

Cofounder, CTO at Richiesoft, Jul 2013 \- Jul 2019 · 6 y, Chennai, I founded Richiesoft to create consumer\-tech apps which pitched into three verticals as consumer, media, and ad\-tech\. Richiesoft started with the concept of AppLabs, an ed\-tech venture aimed at conducting sessions for training professionals and students on multi\-platform application development\. Since then, there has been a consistent development and evolution of products at Richiesoft\. We have segmented this consumer tech startup into Denebsky \(Consumer tech\), Magpoke \(Media tech\), and ILRLabs \(Ad\-tech\) verticals\. Richiesoft, Denebsky & ILRLabs: Richiesoft Startup Studio ⦁ As a Chief Technology Officer, I performed my roles to initiate a startup from the base, where products were designed from scratch to market\. ⦁ A combined small team of friends from college create a startup brand in the earliest days of the startup boom in India\. ⦁ I managed a team of a varying number of employees from 15 to 30 in the domain of engineering, marketing, sales, and management for a span of 6 years at Richiesoft\. ⦁ Being the founding member of the venture I had the major responsibility of working out the market perfect products that could bring in revenues\. ⦁ With an extreme interest in designing and developing the user interface, I had taken up the curse of designing all the media & utility apps for Richiesoft\. Worked on Richiesoft apps in consumer tech vertical across applications for 12 operating systems that includes iOS, Android, Windows, BlackBerry, Chrome, Mac, Tizen to garner traction\. Created a 100% bootstrapped company that extended its market presence until April 2019 and got founded in 2013\. It proved to be a high caliber bootstrap startup even before several startups pitched into the Indian startup ecosystem\.

Graduate Engineer Trainee at Standard Chartered, Jun 2012 \- Jul 2013 · 1 y 1 mo, Chennai, As a Graduate Engineering Trainee, I worked as a part of Tech support team, handling the things straight from the Bank front facing staff\. I handled multi level escalations, provided team support as GE, trained in handling the heavy workload of data assisted via short period, including ticket handling, SQL running & data mining\. Credit mate provides the facility of initiating from spreading using Moody’s RA system to perform credit grading using a no of different scorecards for different types of customers and their business/ capital exposure\. It helps the users in business credit application preparation, customer static data management, limit allocation, scorecard, early alert reporting, and credit risk management using covenants/ risk triggers, etc\. It is accessed across the globe by all branches of Standard Chartered Bank\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Science & Engineering, Anna University Chennai

Master of Business Administration \- MBA, \(PGDIB\) International Business, Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/richardslouis
- doifoo\.com: https://doifoo\.com/

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